Post by TonyDion and the Belmonts at Stern’s department store, New York City Saturday, July 18, 1959https://instagram.fnyc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/bb234042b21df6ac684a81d483714e59/5D713986/t51.2885-15/e35/58629983_2425368840841886_2281605993922220339_n.jpg?_nc_ht=instagram.fnyc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net

Just yesterday I thought about Stern's for the first time in ages. I bought the two bookcases which flank my computer desk there over 40 years ago. Another coincidence is my cousin worked there and, again yesterday, there was a reference to the NYC restaurant One If By Land, Two If By Sea where his brother played the piano in the novel I'm currently reading.